Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor miracle that began when Viking bought an agentless, over-the-transom novel called Ordinary People did not stop there. Sales to Redbook, Ballantine Paperbacks, Reader's Digest Condensed Books and the Book-of-the-Month Club soon followed. Robert Redford's company has just bought the film rights. Judith Guest still does not have an agent, but with any luck she stands to collect something like half a million dollars. Will the resulting cash and carrying-on spoil things in the big, elm-shrouded house in the Minneapolis suburb where the author lives with her husband, three...
Thyroid Cancers. The anti-nuclear forces, a coalition of environmentalists, consumerists and some scientists, enlisted Singer John Denver to raise money by giving rock concerts. Movie Star Robert Redford also joined their cause. The anti-nukes sent up to 5,000 young people a weekend on doorbell-ringing visits throughout the state. They harped on the idea that a reactor meltdown could release a cloud of radioactivity that, in the words of one pamphlet, "could contaminate hundreds of square miles, forcing you to abandon your home, bankrupting your employer and giving thousands of children thyroid cancers." Toward...
...first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors like Hal Ashby (Shampoo) can earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie can end up costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally...
...angry and horrified that Robert Redford would stoop to make a name and money for himself from a movie, and not consider the misfortunes of the few who have paid dearly because of the mistakes of others...
...think the Hunt family feels about All the President's Men while my father is rotting in jail? Howard Hunt's ordeal has been a painful one. He has suffered and lost everything. It's a pity that Mr. Redford did not have the foresight to see that this film will also be at the emotional expense of my father's family and other families as well...